BLOUNTS FARM SONNING COMMON • READING • OXFORDSHIRE BLOUNTS FARM SONNING COMMON • READING • OXFORDSHIRE • RG4 9PA Diversified Mixed Farm 8 bedroom Grade II Listed farmhouse Two 3 bedroom bungalows (subject to AOCs) Traditional and modern farm buildings Rental income and development opportunities (STP) Edge of village location Arable, pasture and woodland About 253.43 acres (102.56 hectares) For sale as a whole or in 6 lots by private treaty savills.co.uk Savills Banbury Savills Henley Savills Oxford Savills London 36 South Bar 58-60 Bell Street Wytham Court, 11 West Way 33 Margaret Street Banbury Henley-on-Thames Oxford London OX16 9AE Oxfordshire, RG9 2BN OX2 0QL W1G 0JD Tel. 01295 228050 Tel: 0191 843 000 Tel. 01865 269179 Tel: 0207 075 2823 Philip Hoare Stephen Christie-Miller Richard Binning Giles Wordsworth [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THE IMPORTANT NOTICE ON THE LAST PAGE OF THE TEXT LOT 1 LOCATION Blounts Farm is situated in south Oxfordshire on the edge of the village of Sonning Common to the north of Reading and west of Henley-on-Thames. Sonning Common is a popular village with village shops, garage, public houses, a primary school and doctors surgery. Reading and Henley-on-Thames offer shopping, leisure and cultural facililites. Further afield London and Oxford offer more extensive options. Approximate distances and times By Road: • Henley-on-Thames: 4.6 miles (7.4 km) • Reading: 5.6 miles (8.9 km) • High Wycombe: 16.7 miles (26.9 km) • Oxford: 23.7 miles (38.1 km) • London: 41.4 miles (66.6 km) By Train: • Reading to London Paddington from 24 mins • Henley-on-Thames to London Paddington from 1 hr 12 mins By Air: • Heathrow Airport: 26.5 miles (42.7 km) LOTS 1 AND 2 LOT 3 DESCRIPTION edge of Sonning Common, some of the land may offer long term BLOUNTS FARM strategic development potential. Extending to about 253.43 acres (102.56 hectares), Blounts Farm is a mixed farm with a Grade II Listed 8 bedroom farmhouse, Blounts Farm is offered for sale as a whole or in six lots by private treaty: two 3 bedroom bungalows (subject to Agricultural Occupancy Conditions), an extensive range of traditional and modern farm Lot 1 Blounts Farmhouse and outbuildings set in about 1.05 buildings, arable, pasture and woodland. acres (0.42 hectares) Blounts Farm has been in the ownership of the Vendor’s family Lot 2 Appletree Cottage (subject to an AOC) and farm since 1919 and farmed by three successive generations. The farm buildings set in about 12.48 acres (5.05 hectares) once formed part of Blounts Court which is the neighbouring Lot 3 Land at Blounts Farm extending to about 198.01 acres property owned by Johnson Matthey, a global leader in sustainable (80.13 hectares) technologies and cutting edge science. Lot 4 Land off Blounts Court Road extending to about 32.07 A significant rental income is generated from the residential acres (12.97 hectares) properties and the farm buildings, many of which have been let as Lot 5 Home Farm Bungalow (subject to an AOC) and offices, workshops and storage units. buildings set in about 0.6 acres (0.24 hectares) The farm buildings offer a variety of development opportunities Lot 6 Little Sparrows extending to about 9.22 acres (3.73 subject to securing the necessary planning consent. Situated on the hectares) LOT 1 LOT 1 - BLOUNTS FARMHOUSE With the oldest elements dating back to the 16th Century, Blounts Farmhouse, historically known as Blounts Court Farmhouse, is an attractive eight bedroom farmhouse over three floors. The farmhouse is Grade II Listed and principally brick built under a plain tiled roof. The farmhouse has a wealth of period features including exposed timbers and six panelled doors. The ground floor comprises the entrance hall, dining room, drawing room, sitting room, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, WC and boot room. There is a cellar which contains the boiler and wine storage. LOT 1 The first floor has four bedrooms, a family bathroom and an en suite shower room. The second floor has four attic bedrooms with a family bathroom. A full renovation, including re-roofing, of the house was undertaken between 2014-2015 to modernise the property. The house is surrounded by gardens principally laid to lawn. To the west of the farmhouse is a garage and carport. To the south and east of the farmhouse is the Granary and former collecting yard which are currently let for office and storage use. These buildings offer scope for other uses subject to securing the necessary planning consents. The farmhouse and some of the buildings are currently let. See the Data Room for full details. LOT 1 LOT 1 BLOUNTS FARMHOUSE Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area 378.5 sq m (4074 sq ft) Not to scale. For identification purposes only. Cellar Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor LOT 2 LOT 2 LOT 2 – APPLETREE COTTAGE AND FARM BUILDINGS, BLOUNTS FARM Lot 2 comprises Appletree Cottage, a three bedroom timber bungalow which is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition, together with the farm buildings, the majority of which are now used for office, workshop and storage uses. The property generates a significant rental income and extends to about 12.48 acres (5.05 hectares) in total. Appletree Cottage, which has its own road access, is situated by the main entrance to the property. The bungalow comprises kitchen, dining room, study, 3 bedrooms and a family bathroom. Appletree Cottage has been occupied by the Farm Manager, who is retiring and moving away from the farm on completion of the sale. The farm buildings comprise a mixture of traditional and modern style farm buildings including two Grade II Listed timber framed threshing barns, two former milking parlours, Dutch barns, steel portal frame calf sheds, timber pole barns LOT 2 LOT 2 and a variety of other structures. There are also eight shipping containers. These buildings and structures have been utilised by a mixture of occupiers for a variety of uses including offices, workshops, storage and retail units for a number of years. The farm buildings site offers scope for development, either to generate further income or to develop the site for other commercial or residential uses, subject to securing the necessary planning consent. A more detailed description of the buildings and a schedule of the occupiers can be found in the Data Room. There is a secondary access for the property to the east of The Shaw, an area of woodland. LOT 2 LOTS 1 AND 2 LOT 3 LOT 3 LOT 3 LOT 5 LOT 4 LOT 6 LOT 3 – LAND AT BLOUNTS FARM Extending to about 198.01 acres (80.13 hectares), the land comprises: • Bottom Barn – an 6 bay timber pole barn with corrugated iron • Arable: 159.07 acres (64.37 hectares) roof and cladding, dirt floor and part brick walling. Measures • Permanent pasture: 28.97 acres (11.72 hectares) about 27m by 11.5m. • Woodland, tracks and miscellaneous: 9.97 acres (4.03 hectares) The arable land has been farmed under an arable rotation by F E LOT 4 – LAND OFF BLOUNTS COURT Doble and Son. The cropping rotation has included winter wheat, ROAD poppies, spring barley and oil seed rape. Extending to about 32.07 acres (12.97 hectares), the property is The grassland is fenced for cattle and the majority of field benefit from split in to two fields namely Parks and Cricket Field. Parks extends mains fed water troughs. Most fields are bordered by mature hedges. to about 23.53 acres (9.52 hectares) and is farmed under an arable rotation whilst Cricket Field is down to permanent pasture. There are two sets of farm buildings: • Middle Barn – an 6 bay Dutch barn with lean-to on either side Their position on the north east side of Sonning Common and with corrugated iron roof, part concrete floor, part stone floor adjoining Johnson Matthey, an employment site, suggests that and part timber Yorkshire boarding. Measures about 28m by they may have some long term strategic development opportunities 19m. Middle Barn is currently let for storage. subject to gaining the necessary planning consent. LOT 5 LOT 5 LOT 5 – HOME FARM, BLOUNTS COURT ROAD, RG4 9RT Home Farm comprises Home Farm Bungalow, a three bedroom timber bungalow built subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition together with outbuildings and Home Farm Barn. Home Farm Bungalow comprises kitchen, sitting room, three bedrooms, family bathroom and a conservatory. The bungalow enjoys a private garden and has a large outbuilding used for storage and parking of cars. Home Farm Barn is a brick and slate traditional farm building that has been used as a workshop for a number of years. Next to Home Farm Barn is a timber building used for storage. Subject to securing the necessary planning consent, Lot 5 offers scope for development owing to its location on the edge of Sonning Common and direct access on to Blounts Court Road. The house and buildings are currently let. See the Data Room for full details. LOT 6 – LITTLE SPARROWS Located on the edge of Sonning Common and promoted through South Oxfordshire District Council’s Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA) process, Little Sparrows extends to about 9.22 acres (3.73 hectares). The field has been used for car boot sales and other events including a Ferrari owners event in July 2017 as it benefits from good road access off Blounts Court Road. The field is down to permanent pasture and bordered by hedges.